Word: enfante
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...announced that, starting in 1978, Bombay-born Mehta, 39, would be sending himself willingly to New York to become the orchestra's music director. He succeeds French Composer-Conductor Pierre Boulez, who will quit in 1977 after six years to head a new musical-research institute. A onetime enfant terrible of the avantgarde, Boulez had a reign that was not so much stormy as trying-on him, the management and the subscribers. He was a supreme orchestral technician-his men called him the French Correction-and a master of 20th century music...
...nostalgic love for the fairy-tale side of romantic Imperial ballet. That fondness has produced masterpieces - The Nutcracker, for example - but it can also lead to muddled fables like L'Enfant et les Sortilèges (The Boy and the Sorceries). Described as a "lyric fantasy" and based on a story by Colette, L'Enfant is as much an operetta as a ballet. It requires a chorus, a quintet of singing narrators and a boy soprano. He plays a naughty child who escapes from his studies into a fantasy world of cavorting armchairs, dancing teapots, and a veritable...
...with gentle sadism, and at around 350 lbs., Orson Welles' presence is more commanding than ever. But gone is the baby-faced villainy that made Harry Lime and Mr. Rochester essays of anarchy, and muffled is the sly sardonic spirit with which Welles, as a 24-year-old enfant terrible, created Citizen Kane. Even as a tired king of the jungle, though, Welles, now 59, easily dominated the festivities at Los Angeles' Century Plaza Hotel where the American Film Institute gave him its Life Achievement Award. Before an audience of 1,200, including Frank Sinatra, Charlton Heston...
...turned out that the work of art was a stretch of gauze running the length of the exhibition room but set two feet out from the real wall. It was white, and looked like a wall. The best the conceptualists could do was a show by that professional enfant terrible, Les Levine, that featured drawings of five dozen or so Watergate characters, along with a voice on a loudspeaker intoning "June fifth, Sam Ervin, blue-gray suit, dark blue tie, pale blue shirt, gold watch...
...make Peking duck. Kaye started coming to class last year; then, when his old friend Mme. Chiang (no kin to Mme. Chiang Kaishek) fell ill, he stepped in as instructor. Danny still makes the weekly trip from his Beverly Hills home, reverting to his favorite role-that of enfant terrible. Halfway through surgery on a fowl, he was asked, "How old is that chicken?" Replied Kaye instantly: "He was born Jan. 16, 1971, and has lived happily ever after with three brothers and one sister on a ranch in California...